Lecture 8: Mood Disorders Part 2

Question 1

Treatment interventions for mood disorders (4)

Answer 1

1. Behavioral interventions
2. Cognitive internventions
3. Psychopharmacological interventions
4. Insight-oriented interventions

Question 2

Behavioral interventions for mood disorders

Answer 2

Operant conditioning!!

Question 3

Operant conditioning

Answer 3

Associative learning in which organisms behavior elicits either reinforcement/punishment from their environment

Question 4

What do reinforcements do to the likelihood of similar future behavior?

Answer 4

Increases them!

Question 5

What do punishments do to the likelihood of similar future behavior?

Answer 5

Decreases them

Question 6

Respondent conditioning uses organisms _______ to create associations between stimuli

Answer 6

Observations

Question 7

Operant conditioning uses organisms _______ to create associations between stimuli

Answer 7

Actions! - goal directed behavior

Question 8

Positive reinforcements

Answer 8

Increases likelihood of similar future behavior by ADDING SOMETHING GRATIFYING

Question 9

Negative reinforcements

Answer 9

Increase the likelihood of similar future behavior by subtracting something aversive

Question 10

Positive punishments

Answer 10

Decrease the likelihood of similar future behavior by adding something aversive

Question 11

Negative punishments

Answer 11

Decrease the likelihood of similar future behavior by subtracting something gratifying

Question 12

By helping clients change patterns of rewards/punishments behavioral therapists helps clients with depression by: (3)

Answer 12

1) Up-regulate their reward system
2) Increase positive emotion
3) Increase positive mood

Question 13

Operant conditioning (particularly positive reinforcement) is used in (2)

Answer 13

1) Applied behavioral analysis w/ children with behavioral problems
2) behavioral activation therapy with people with depression

Question 14

Cognitive interventions for mood disorders

Answer 14

Cognitive therapy

Question 15

Cognitive therapy

Answer 15

A family of therapeutic methods that aims to identify and modify maladaptive cognitions eg.

• Thoughts
• beliefs
• Categorizations
• reasoning
• problem-solving Spragues

Question 16

Cognitive treatment for depression helps a person to (3)

Answer 16

1) become aware of maladaptive cognitive
2) challenge maladaptive cognitions
3) replace them with more adaptive cognitions

Question 17

Some maladaptive cognitions are often called:

Answer 17

Cognitive distortions

Question 18

What are some types of cognitive distortions? (8)

Answer 18

1) black and white thinking
2) jumping to conclusion
3) personalization
4) overgeneralization
5) magnification of negative events
6) minimization of positive events
7) catastrophizing
8) imperatives

Question 19

Black and white thinking

Answer 19

Thinking where the world is divided into good and bad and no greys

Question 20

Personalization

Answer 20

Thinking that the universe is out to get them after a series of misfortunes

Question 21

Cognitive therapy helps clients to identify/modify ______ ______ and replaces them with more accurate and useful ______

Answer 21

Maladaptive cognitions
Cognitions

Question 22

Pharmacological therapy for Depressive disorders (3)

Answer 22

1) SSRI
2) SNRI
3) Tricyclic antidepressants

Question 23

Pharmacological therapy for Bipolar disorder (2)

Answer 23

1) Mood stabilizers
2) Antipsychotics

Question 24

Insight oriented therapy for mood disorders addresses mental help problems by helping to: (4)

Answer 24

1) identify contributing factors to mental health problems
2) facilitate awareness of previously unconscious thoughts/beliefs/emotions
3) facilitate insight about factors contributing to person’s mental health problems
4) facilitate change on basis of awareness/insight

Question 25

Insight oriented therapy often focuses on: (2)

Answer 25

1) client’s interpersonal relationships 2) client’s personality

Question 26

Client’s interpersonal relationships include: (4)

Answer 26

1) client’s current relationships 2) client’s past relationships 3) client’s relationships with family 4) client’s relationship with therapist

Question 27

Client’s personality includes: (4)

Answer 27

1. Personality style - temperament/character 2. Defense mechanisms 3. How client’s personality may contribute to mental health problems 4) how client’s personality may contribute to life problems

Question 28

Temperament

Answer 28

Innate dispositions towards specific behaviors eg. Level of optimal stimulation, interest in persons vs things

Question 29

Character

Answer 29

Acquired dispositions toward specific behaviors eg. Internalization of cultural norms, social norms, moral norms